The investment team employs a top-down approach to asset class allocation. The allocation decision starts with macroeconomic analysis. They believe that market participants often misjudge the likely paths of monetary policy, inflation, and credit quality—key paths that, for the most part, are aligned with the business cycle or inflation cycle. The team employs fundamental and quantitative analyses to identify and exploit any mispricing in an effort to generate superior returns over the long term. Mispricing often occurs when market expectations are excessive and unlikely to be realized.

The team utilizes a proprietary term structure model that imputes the market expectations of inflation and monetary policy from market prices. These forecasts are compared to the likely range of outcomes—taking into account fiscal policy, monetary policy, general business conditions and historical precedent—to determine yield-curve positioning.

The risk parameters established by the portfolio management team guide the portfolio managers in implementing security selection decisions. To help attain these targets, the portfolio managers refer to the value opportunities already identified by the various research teams in making their security selection decisions. Portfolio managers have the ultimate responsibility for fulfilling portfolio targets while simultaneously ensuring that all selected securities are compliant with the investment guidelines.

The team's research focuses on identifying value in as many opportunities as possible. Portfolios are built security by security with vigorous attention paid to assessing and comparing a wide variety of possible investments.